Package-carrier.



No. 656,049. Patented Aug. I4, 1900. C. A. S A N E R.

PACKAGE CARRIER.

(Application filed Dec. 13, 1899.)

(No Model.)

INVENTCR WITNESSES m I %t/ CHARLES ALBERT SANER, OF POWHATAN POINT, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE A. KORNER, OF SAME PLACE.

PAC KAG E-CARRIER.

QPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 656,049, dated August 14, 1900.

Application filed December 1 3, 1899. Serial No. 740,222. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit knownthatLOHARLEs ALBERTSANER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Powhatan Point, county of Belmont, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in' Paclc age-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in package-carriers; and it consists in the particular construction which will hereinafter be fully described and pointed out.

One object of my invention is to provide a device by which a package, parcel, bundle, or a number of them may be conveniently carried in one hand; also, to provide a device of the character described having a place provided therein for an advertising or other card.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device of the character described which will be light, simple, convenient, and efficient and which can be manufactured and sold at a very small cost, making it a desirable advertisin g device, as a merchant may keep them on hand in quantities, giving one to each purchaser of a bill of goods, with which the purchaser may carry the package or packages of goods purchased.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention complete. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of one of the detachable hooks.

I form the handle of my device of any suitable material, preferably of thin sheet metal, bending it into the desired shape. For the purpose of more easily describing it I will refer to the diiferent sides and parts thereof by reference-numerals, like numerals designating like parts throughout the several views.

1 indicates the base of the handle, preferably straight and flat. The sides 2 of the handle are bent vertically upward from the edges of the base, each sidehaving its upper edges 3 inturned or bent inward and downward, forming a groove 12 between said edge and the side, the object of which grooves will presently be shown. At each end of said base portion 1 is a downwardly-extending lip 4.

In each of said lips 4 is an angular aperture or slot 5, the angle formed by the two converging lines of said slot being obtuse. The upper end of said slot' extends back a short distance in the base portion 1 and the lower end thereof extends downward at an angle toward one of the lower corners of said lip 4. Near the opposite lower corner of said lip 4 is a small round hole or aperture 6.

7 indicates a wire,preferably made of spri ngsteel, formed in a circular or loop shape and having its ends bent vertically upward from its periphery and then bent back upon themselves, forming hooks 9 and 10 with shanks 8. Said hook 10 is inserted in the opening 6 and is closed, so that it may not be easily disengaged therefrom. The hook 9, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3, does not have its end bent back entirely upon its shank, but is left slightly open, so that it may be readily slipped into or out of engagement with said.lip 4 in the slot 5 when desired.

Now it is apparent that when it is desired to put my invention to practical use in carrying packages the hooks 9 are pressed upward along the slots 5 and pressed out of engagement with the lips 4, when the loops 7 will take the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. The cord with which the parcel or package is Wrapped or bound is slipped into the loops 7 at each end of my device, when said hooks 9 are again secured in place. It is also apparent that a number of packages may be carried with my device, each package having its wrapping-cord slipped onto the loops 7.

It is obvious that the ends of the loops '7, which are formed of spring-steel or other spring-metal wire, will have a tendency to spring apart and that this tendency will cause the hook 9 to lie firmly in the lower end of the slot 5 when once hooked therein.

When it is desired, a card .with the owners name and address or a merchants businesscard 14 may be inserted in the handle of my device, the edges of said card lying in the grooves 12 and held firmly in place by the inturned edges 3 of the sides.

I have described my invention in what I consider to be its simplest form; but it is obvious that mere mechanical changes may be made in its construction without departing from the spirit or scope thereof. Hence I do not desire to limit myself to the precise construction shown.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a package-carrier, a handle formed of one piece of sheet metal and having at each end thereof downwardly-extending lips, a slot in each of said lips, and wire loops depending from said lips, each loop having one end fixedly secured in the lip and its other removably secured in the slot, substantially as and for the purposes set forth and described.

2. A package-carrier comprising a handle formed of one piece of sheet metal, a place provided therein for an advertising or other card, a lip on each end of said handle, an angular slot or aperture in each lip, spring-metalwire loops, one of said Wire loops depending from each lip and having one of its ends securely fastened in the lip and the other end removably secured in the angular slot of the lip, substantially as and for the purposes set forth and described.

3. A package-carrier comprising a handle formed of one piece of thin sheet metal with a base portion and sides, said sides having inturned edges, a downwardly-extending lip on each end of the base portion having an angular slot and a hole therein, a spring-inetal-wire loop having its ends bent to form hooks, one of said hooks being secured in the hole of the lip and bent upon its shank to securely hold it in place, and the other hook removably secured in the angular slot, substantially as described.

ward from its periphery and forming shanks,

andthe ends of said shanks bent to form hooks, one of said hooks being fixedly secured in the hole and the other removably secured in the slot of the lip, substantially as herein described.

5. A package-carrier and advertising device, comprising a handle with a base portion, sides bent vertically upward from the edges of said base portion, the upper edges of the sides turned inward and downward forming grooves adapted to hold in place an advertising-card, a lip on each end of said base portion, an obtuse-angled slot or aperture in each lip, and a circular spring-metal-Wire loop having its ends bent vertically upward from its periphery forming shanks, the ends of said shanks bent back upon themselves forming hooks, one of said hooks being securely fastened to the lip and the other removably secured in said aperture or slot, substantially as and for the purposes set forth and described.

Signed by me at Powhatan Point, Ohio, this 15th day of November, 1899.

CHARLES ALBERT SANE R.

Witnesses:

JOHN M. COLEMAN, JACOB 130mm. 

